Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] of [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No details were given of the glycaemic control or other metabolic parameters of the two groups of diabetics studied ( Davis et al , 1982 ) , and it is difficult to account for these findings . |
| 2 | In response to a question in Parliament in 1984 , figures based on a 10 per cent sample were given of the comparative success rates of different types of representation . |
| 3 | I remember when some tapes were located of the last performance that Dinu Lipatti gave at Lucerne . |
| 4 | The praise lavished upon Henry V by his contemporaries , by no means all English , is indicative of the admiration accorded to one whose hold upon his men was such that , for a while , those parts of France under English control were freed of the worst excesses committed by soldiers . |
| 5 | But at the moments you wish you were shot of the whole thing you know perfectly well that it 's precisely because you could n't endure to be without it , now you know about it , that you 've got to go through all this . |
| 6 | A recent survey of early Anglo-Saxon whetstones showed that a number were made of a sand-silt greywacké which has its source in the north-west Pennines , the Lake District and south-west Scotland . |
| 7 | A major problem with early computers was the question of reliability ; pessimistic forecasts were made of the mean time to failure of assemblies of several thousand valves , and a prime consideration in designing a computer was to make it as simple as possible . |
| 8 | Numerous inquiries were made of the Financial Secretary to elucidate the resulting effect of the Bill on in-house benefits , i.e. , concessionary travel for airline , railway and merchant navy employees , on benefits for hotel employees and on concessionary education for the children of teachers . |
| 9 | Subalterns posted to the Indian Army were expected to kill a tiger in order to prove that they were made of the right stuff . |
| 10 | Because they were made of the right kind of iron ? |
| 11 | Indirect criticisms were made of the incumbent leadership who were themselves struggling to maintain legitimacy during this period when the reforms had run into difficulties . |
| 12 | Comparisons were made of the following indices of bowel function : stated frequency of defecation per week , mean interval between recorded defecations , a score for stool form , and calculated whole gut transit time . |
| 13 | However , the stiff chairs and table were made of the expensive blackwood which grew to the south and was imported from Punt . |
| 14 | Enquiries were made of the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic where , however , there was a lengthy waiting list . |
| 15 | All celestial objects in the super-lunar region were made of an incorruptible element called aether . |
| 16 | If proof were needed of the new-found fascination with sound reproduction in the 1950s , the last picture should supply it . |
| 17 | And the good news was that we were told of a live album for release early next year that should capture the music more honestly than either of his two studio outings have managed to do so far . |
| 18 | However , during the first Two Periods of the development of the Created God , the pleasures of life were confined to those of a purely physical nature and were born of the ruthless competition for life . |
| 19 | If the doctrine was broken and officials could explain their views freely in public , then ministers would have the much more formidable task of making their case against men who were seized of the key counterpoints and who knew that their arguments were accepted by many in the ministry . |
| 20 | It did not include any formula for the future determination of pay , a principal element of the unions ' original claim , and ambulance workers on Merseyside declared an all-out stoppage from Feb. 26 until the results were known of a national membership ballot , in which , however , 81 per cent supported acceptance of the deal ( as announced on March 13 ) . |
| 21 | In turn however adjustments of attitude and method were demanded of the traditional concerns , some of which had developed simultaneously with , and sometimes interactively with , systems ideas . |
| 22 | In 1986 , the sample size was increased to 3100 ; core questions were asked of all the sample , while other questions were asked of a random half of the respondents . |
| 23 | Fortunately photographs were taken of the original carvings ( above ) |
| 24 | Emergency locks were situated in most of the main companionways and , in the event that they were forced to abandon ship , members of the crew who were unable to reach a docking bay in time were assured of a moderate chance of survival . |
| 25 | When , for example , colonies of bacterial species in a laboratory were deprived of a certain kind of amino acid needed for growth , they produced mutant strains capable of producing their own amino acids . |
| 26 | Because those who re-offended went to prison automatically , without the possibility of a non-custodial sentence the next time they were convicted of an imprisonable offence , they might remain in custody for a longer time than would otherwise have been the case . |
| 27 | Defenders of a traditional cosmology simply could not allow that the earth was made from the same materials as the planets , for the latter were composed of a fifth element not found in the corruptible , sublunar world . |
| 28 | Indeed , such an imbalance between particles and antiparticles is yet another a priori condition for our existence , for if the solar system were composed of an equal mixture of particles and antiparticles , they would all annihilate each other and leave just radiation . |
| 29 | On Oct. 24 , 1989 , details were released of a Supreme Court ruling which qualified an earlier ruling on Oct. 3 that the government 's emergency policy of extradition by decree ( introduced in August — see p. 36844 ) was constitutional , stating that administrative measures could only be used in cases where countries requesting extradition had no extradition agreement with Colombia . |
| 30 | Few details were released of the precise circumstances of the friendly fire incidents which caused the casualties . |